Author Topic: Zima 'sliding post' prototype (Read 27923 times)

ED209 · « **Reply #25 on:** January 10, 2016, 08:17 PM »

Quote from: OllyHall on January 10, 2016, 05:43 PM

Also unlike your sliding post Zima this 1's seat tube is full fat size, it has a plastic shim

mine was full fat size too! I had to get a fat shim for it

ED209 · « **Reply #26 on:** February 21, 2016, 11:31 AM »

Little update :

Finally got my Zima forks, Reaction Boa and Gsport bars off young Olly

Forks are off to be dechromed :-)

Phil has finished rebrazing the brake mounts on so the frame is heading back to me next week ... things are happening :-)

OllyHall · « **Reply #27 on:** February 21, 2016, 02:28 PM »

Look forward to seeing this finished!

ED209 · « **Reply #28 on:** February 21, 2016, 02:31 PM »

Quote from: OllyHall on February 21, 2016, 02:28 PM

Look forward to seeing this finished!

hope I can do it justice to your vision Olly

OllyHall · « **Reply #29 on:** February 21, 2016, 02:38 PM »

I doubt it Edward but I'm sure it will be nice

ED209 · « **Reply #30 on:** February 21, 2016, 02:55 PM »

Quote from: OllyHall on February 21, 2016, 02:38 PM

I doubt it Edward but I'm sure it will be nice

tw@t ... thats the last time I try and be nice to you fatty

OllyHall · « **Reply #31 on:** February 21, 2016, 02:59 PM »

CustardLips · « **Reply #32 on:** February 21, 2016, 03:08 PM »

Quote from: OllyHall on February 21, 2016, 02:38 PM

I doubt it Edward but I'm sure it will be nice

ED209 · « **Reply #33 on:** February 21, 2016, 10:22 PM »

lovely brazed mounts

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OllyHall · « **Reply #34 on:** February 22, 2016, 07:21 AM »

Yummy!!

ED209 · « **Reply #35 on:** February 26, 2016, 05:01 PM »

Its here

anyone else got a 2kg Zima? no ... you sir? ... no .... madam? .... no?

WELL I FUKKING HAVE HAHAHA

sawzall · « **Reply #36 on:** February 26, 2016, 06:45 PM »

That was quick for a heavy load!!!

ED209 · « **Reply #37 on:** February 26, 2016, 07:33 PM »

Quote from: sawzall on February 26, 2016, 06:45 PM

That was quick for a heavy load!!!

its light as fook you old bugger!

chubby · « **Reply #38 on:** February 26, 2016, 10:29 PM »

Quote from: ED209 on February 26, 2016, 05:01 PM

Its here

anyone else got a 2kg Zima? no ... you sir? ... no .... madam? .... no?

WELL I FUKKING HAVE HAHAHA

Send it back to Phil & get him to weld more stuff on the anorexic bastard

ED209 · « **Reply #39 on:** February 26, 2016, 11:15 PM »

Quote from: chubby on February 26, 2016, 10:29 PM

Quote from: ED209 on February 26, 2016, 05:01 PM
Its here

anyone else got a 2kg Zima? no ... you sir? ... no .... madam? .... no?

WELL I FUKKING HAVE HAHAHA
Send it back to Phil & get him to weld more stuff on the anorexic bastard

It still fat so you will love it ... its just doesn't need Geoff Capes to get it out the shed

chubby · « **Reply #40 on:** February 26, 2016, 11:30 PM »

Quote from: ED209 on February 26, 2016, 11:15 PM

Quote from: chubby on February 26, 2016, 10:29 PM
Quote from: ED209 on February 26, 2016, 05:01 PM
Its here

anyone else got a 2kg Zima? no ... you sir? ... no .... madam? .... no?

WELL I FUKKING HAVE HAHAHA
Send it back to Phil & get him to weld more stuff on the anorexic bastard

It still fat so you will love it ... its just doesn't need Geoff Capes to get it out the shed

Light Zima just isn't right, best nail heavy bits on or it'll blow away

ED209 · « **Reply #41 on:** February 28, 2016, 11:18 PM »

So I've got this Zima prototype frame ... I bought it towards the end of last year but it only arrived the other day ... sold the one I had but kept all the parts thinking they would go on to this new one ... but now its in my hands things are not so straight forward!

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First of all it LOOKS like a normal Zima ... but when you pick it up its a shock ... the frame only weighs 2kg!!! This frame is THE one and only lightweight Zima.

The tubes are the same diameter as a normal Zima but really thin... the dropouts are also made of much thinner material ... its all round a much more light weight frame.

Phil Sawzall has been putting some 990 mounts back on it for me and when I was chatting with him he screwed my build ideas up by saying "its a light as a race bike ... why not build it as a race bike".

Olly told me that Steve built it as a jump bike ... so I've given Steve a shout on Facebook to find out how he thought it should be built... but the more I think about it it doesn't feel right to build it as a freestyle bike ... its just too light to handle it... unless it was just built out of lighter materials because it was just a prototype for the sliding post model ... but then why would the sliding post version need a prototype? its exactly the same other than with a sliding seat post ... hopefully Steve can answer some of these questions.

Also Sen has a set of Zima forks that are s h o r t leg with no peg mounts ... maybe they were made for this frame?

So ... do you think I could build it as a race bike ... or a trails bike ... or should I just stick to a freestyler?

oldschoolace · « **Reply #42 on:** February 28, 2016, 11:26 PM »

What's wrong with having a lightweight freestyler

ED209 · « **Reply #43 on:** February 28, 2016, 11:30 PM »

Quote from: oldschoolace on February 28, 2016, 11:26 PM

What's wrong with having a lightweight freestyler

theres nothing wrong with it as such ... but the build philosophy behind the Zima was strength through big fat heavy as fook tubes ... this is something different

ED209 · « **Reply #44 on:** February 28, 2016, 11:31 PM »

Here's Sen's forks ... never seen Zima forks like this before

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deeman · « **Reply #45 on:** February 29, 2016, 12:47 AM »

Those forks look lush!
I guess the lines were getting blurred between race/ freestyle / trails by this point...
I would just build it as an all rounder with nice parts I reckons...but I know fook all about mid school

insectbones · « **Reply #46 on:** February 29, 2016, 07:19 AM »

Get them forks off Sen and build it as a race bike

Then when you realise you don't like it, sell it to me

pickle · « **Reply #47 on:** February 29, 2016, 07:34 AM »

No race bike should ever have 990 lugs on it in my opinion

Lightweight freestyler

midschooljon · « **Reply #48 on:** February 29, 2016, 08:19 AM »

Quote from: pickle on February 29, 2016, 07:34 AM

No race bike should ever have 990 lugs on it in my opinion

You'd be surprised how many NBL and ABA mains were won with bikes that had 990 lugs.

Ed, its not a race bike. Start and end of it.

Saying that everyone builds Zimas the same. Id sugest it needs Sens forks, 2pc bars, and 2 pegs on the one side. Build it into a proper mid trails / street / park bike, not a tank for tanks sakes.

ED209 · « **Reply #49 on:** February 29, 2016, 08:21 AM »

Quote from: pickle on February 29, 2016, 07:34 AM

No race bike should ever have 990 lugs on it in my opinion

Lightweight freestyler

well that was the other red herring Rob ... before I had felt how light it was I saw that it had the hole in the seat tube for the 990 ... Olly had asked Phil to put lugs on and I thought it needed them too ... but I kind feel the same about a race bike ... but I'm sure some trails bikes had them?